I'm running xrdp on my RPi, and it works how it's supposed to, but since the keyboard on iOS behaves weird in Microsoft's rdp app, I would like to be able to use my iPhone/iPad as screen (+ mouse) and ...

I recently installed kernel 3.14.27-100 on my Fedora 19 system and now I no longer get a Caps Lock LED when using virtual terminals. (It still works on X system ). Also, it works fine running kernel ...

I have decided to try out gnome 3.x for a while, as I have been using unity for the most part. But I have become accustomed to the 2d grid workspaces in unity, and I can only think of one way I can ...

I would like to improve my efficiency. I recall seeing some tool to use gui applications on linux with the keyboard, but I do not recall much else about it! Please advise how I can go mouseless(for ...

Very recently, maybe within the last two weeks this issue has started cropping up: once maybe every two days or so, the up and down arrow keys simply stop working for a while - I can move the cursor ...

I am trying to set stable keyboard configurations for the user with 90 WPM of correct words per minute and the keyboard layout Dvorak.
The cursor location is behaving unstably for instance in editors ...

I have been learning about daemons and writing them in c. What I want to do is make the daemon receive the global key press signals in ubuntu, and write the received key presses to a separate file. Is ...

Spent a while trying to create keyboard shortcuts in terminal for command history access (up/down arrow keys). Realized after some frustration that this wasn't the issue - some keyboard keys are just ...

Due to some historic reason, I am running Xorg-1.4 with kernel 2.6.32.21 for an old board. On this board, If I start the X then, mouse works very well. But keyboard fails to run. Only "numpad" works ...

I am interested in writing a daemon that watches for raw key events so I can detect the F-keys on my keyboard and launch programs when they are pressed. How can I detect when these F-keys are pressed?
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I have an embedded Qt application crosscompiled that runs on BeagleBone Black. It works Ok, but one thing- It doesnt accept keyboard input if i wont run in directly on BeagleBone Black preceeding with ...

I have a server running Debian 8 Jessie with a windows manager E17 running on it and I have a vnc viewer remoting my server using windons 8.1 but when I tried to write on the terminal of my server via ...

Alright, I'm not really sure what's going on here. My laptop is a Dell precision m4800 running Ubuntu 15.04 64bit. It boots fast, without any issues, and I am able to login and generally go about my ...

I upgraded my Cinnamon DE (in Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca) via sudo apt-get install cinnamon, from my Xfce DE. All is working well except for the keyboard layouts. I'm stuck with a US English layout and ...

I have an Arch Linux machine whose 'r' key started misbehaving recently. This only happens when the language is set to English (in another language, it works correctly), which makes me suspect it's ...

I used to select text via mouse click+drag but I want to know if I can do the same thing via the keyboard only?
I am talking about selecting text with the help of the keyboard on gnome-terminal, etc.
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Im using Xubuntu 14.04.
I have a Logitech TK820 (keyboard touchpad combination) and wish to disable the touchpad.
In the X log I can see that it is configured as mouse and configured as keyboard.
I ...

I am trying to grasp a fairly involved Unix shell (tested in bash) function that listens for keypresses. The full code can be found here. The part I am having trouble understanding is the purpose of ...

I turn my computer on, select my linux harddrive, and then I end up at the Linux mint encryption password area. I have to wait about 1 minute just for my keyboard and mouse to actually light up and ...

I want to intercept the raw events from the keyboard (or the mouse, eventually). I tried to use the /dev/input/[...] files, they are very practical and I can read the events of any key even caps lock ...

After upgrading my system (including kernel) I discovered that some of fn keys (XF86MonBrightnessUp and XF86MonBrightnessDown) are not recognized by xev and even showkey. Each time one of these keys ...

I want to remap caps lock to escape in X11 (i.e. pressing the physical caps lock button will be interpreted as esc by applications and esc's behavior will not change). The solution must survive an X ...

As in the title, some function buttons are not being reconised after resuming from sleep. systemctl suspend is used. The buttons work fine after boot and before the sleep but not after. I have tested ...

It appears that due to the poor build of my laptop, keys sometimes get pressed in my backpack, even though the lid is closed. This causes it to silently resume from sleep, then overheat and drain the ...